David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social

Independent Scholar, writer, translator, and publishing consultant working in Polish Literature. Producer and host of "Encounters with Polish Literature."

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Keep up with my video series, “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature,” and catch all past episodes featuring scholars, translators, and authors at https://t.co/HcYX0Mtxar @PolishInstNY

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Now that we have a critical mass of 5 Ukrainian women writers discussed on “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature,” please check out our new playlist of Ukrainian Women Writers for Women in Translation Month.

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August is Women in Translation month. Check out the latest update to the playlist of Polish Women Writers discussed on “Encounters with Polish Literature.” We’re up to 17 so far with more to come.

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https://t.co/C4lZEcFOov

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Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s massive novel, “Ice,” dives deep into a futuristic past of alternative history and alternative physics. Listen to my conversation with Found-in-Translation Award winner, Ursula Phillips. @PolishInstNY @HoZ_Books

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@RealisticPoetry Paper maps, road atlas, TripTik from AAA, and memorizing the roads.

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Benjamin Paloff (UMich) and I discuss the marriage plot and cultural and class conflict in plays by Fredro, Wyspiański, and Przybyszewski in the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.” New drama series. @PolishInstNY
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Cyprian Kamil Norwid, the *4th* of the 3 Polish Romantic bards is the subject of the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature." He bridged Romanticism and Modernism and spoke against slavery in the US. @PolishInstNY https://t.co/CBBavPpQlc

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@BeilinsonOrel I specialize in interwar Polish avantgarde prose, but to get a job as a Polonist in the US, I had to be able to cover the entire history, teach Russian literature, and it helped to be a comparatist and teach theory. Imagine being a Shakespeare scholar in an English department!

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@BeilinsonOrel This must apply to those people who say things like "our team has 190 years of combined experience" in roofing or investment banking or whatever.

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@PhysInHistory Skłodowska, of course.

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@olivertraldi The great Russian authors all talked about Paul de Cock.

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Stefan Żeromski (1864-1925) was the "conscience of Poland." In the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature" we discuss "The Homeless," the portrait of a doctor who challenges his colleagues to advocate for the poor. @PolishInstNY https://t.co/6B0Ljaqqpx

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@TimothyDSnyder The U.S. is now Uganda under Idi Amin--a refuge for corrupt, anti-democratic fugitives.

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@filip_munko @eastblocvisuals The servings have gotten larger under capitalism.

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@BeilinsonOrel And what else did they imagine you might be doing in Central Asia?

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@eddyportnoy @JewYid Well, good to know my spotty Yiddish is at least up to this task.

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@magyarpeterMP Olof Palme's model was very noble, but alas it didn't work out well for him or for the country that lost its leader.

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@BeilinsonOrel "a sort of filleted Cecil Rhodes"--I can't imagine where I could use that, but I'm keeping it.

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The Polish Queer novel really came out in the early 2000s with Michał Witkowski’s “Lubiewo” (“Lovetown”). Catch my conversation with translator Bill Martin on the latest episode of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature.”
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@Fitness4DtyExam @dieworkwear My thought exactly.

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@anneapplebaum There are rewards for professional hatchetmen. He can be like E. Gordon Gee.